Episode 10 | Fantasy Gardening : Tree Shaping | Growing Tomatoes – Bumper Special| One listeners ‘No Dig’ Story |

Posted on | May 11, 2009 | 2 Comments

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Fantasy Gardening : Tree Shaping with Becky from Pooktre.
Growing Tomatoes – Bumper Bonza Special.
Over the back fence : One listeners ‘No Dig’ Story – ‘No Dig’ Success on a terrible site.
TV garden gems to watch out for.
Veg Patch Report.

Pooktre : Glorious Living Designs

You can buy these for your garden. There is a book coming out on how to grow your own.

Me thinks I need to try this!

For more information on tree shaping the Web Site is : http://www.pooktre.com/

________________________________________________________________________

Landline – ABC TV Show – Link to transcripts for April 2009

http://www.abc.net.au/landline/archives/landline_200904.htm

Around the world in 80 gardens can currently be views on the ABC’s iView internet service. You’ll need broadband internet. You’ll be taken to a test page and then to a page with a choice of shows. Choose ‘ABC Catchup’ or if you follow the link below you’re already there, just choose Around the world in 80 gardens. There are two episodes on offer at the moment.

ABC TV iView Service

________________________________________________________________________

Links to Tomato Diseases and Pests Information :

Tomato Diseases

Tomato Pests

Il Tomatina Tomato Festival : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Tomatina

Gordon Graham’s World Largest Tomato : http://www.bdb.co.za/shackle/articles/gordon_graham.htm

Tomato Tree growing in Walt Disney’s Experimental Greenhouse in Lake Buena Vista USA

http://www.wdwnews.com/ViewImage.aspx?ImageID=101932

________________________________________________________________________

Links to other pages of this site mentioned in Episode 10:

Cranbourne Royal Botanic Gardens Pictures: http://digitdownunder.com/walkabout/?p=146

My dream orchard for the pie maker in the family: Check out the What’s Up Page from the 15th of May

In the meantime the web site for the Heritage Fruit Trees is : http://www.yalcafruittrees.com.au/

________________________________________________________________________

The current gift for those on or joining the mailing list is:

A follow up article for the Bumper Tomato special featuring a sketch of Riley’s special trellis set up, a list of the top tomatoes for fresh eating and cooking and how to tell the difference. PLUS Instructions for setting up Riley’s own seedling protection system. Thwart the birds and cats, keep your mulch in place and it’s all hidden from the eye.

Tweet This Post

Category: Over the back Fence, Stories, Tomatoes, Uncategorized, Unusual Plants, Vegie Patch
Tags: ABC landline > around the world in 80 gardens > cranbourne botanic gardens > growing tomatoes > no dig gardening > pooktre > tree shaping

Comments

2 Responses to “Episode 10 | Fantasy Gardening : Tree Shaping | Growing Tomatoes – Bumper Special| One listeners ‘No Dig’ Story |”

Lana
September 11th, 2009 @ 4:32 am

Re: tomato stakes – couldn’t you put them in a bucket of bleach water to kill any nasty virus etc.?
Riley
September 11th, 2009 @ 7:36 am

Hey Lana,

I guess you could – this is a good way to keep the old sticks going, but you’d want to wait quite a while before putting them in the soil.

Cheers

Riley